Re: [PATCH] rpmsg: qcom_smd: Access APCS through mailbox framework

[Bjorn Andersson]

On Wed 06 Dec 04:08 PST 2017, Jitendra Sharma wrote:

> Hi Bjorn,
> 

Hi Jitendra,

> On 11/16/2017 12:38 PM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
[..]
> > @@ -365,7 +371,12 @@ static void qcom_smd_signal_channel(struct qcom_smd_channel *channel)
> >   {
> >   	struct qcom_smd_edge *edge = channel->edge;
> > -	regmap_write(edge->ipc_regmap, edge->ipc_offset, BIT(edge->ipc_bit));
> > +	if (edge->mbox_chan) {
> > +		mbox_send_message(edge->mbox_chan, NULL);
> mbox_send_message could fail. So return value should be checked

qcom_apcs_ipc_send_data() can't fail, so the case when
mbox_send_message() would fail is if more than MBOX_TX_QUEUE_LEN (20)
callers that has managed to put their data in the queue but not yet
execute msg_submit().

As each bit in the APCS IPC register is modelled as it's own mailbox
channel this error case would mean that as mbox_send_message() returns
with an error there will soon be 20 callers entering
qcom_apcs_ipc_send_data() and trigger this very bit.


When this happens mbox_send_message() will print an error in the log, so
there's no point in having the caller also print an error.

When it comes to dealing with a failing call to mbox_send_message() we
have already posted the message in the FIFO, so we have no way to abort
the transmission, as such the only way to deal with this is to either
retry or ignore the problem; and the mailbox queue will ensure that we
retry 20 times.

Regards,
Bjorn